Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist and Chair Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. He is the co-editor of the open-access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique and the author of many books, including Social Media: A Critical Introduction (2024, fourth edition), Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere (2023), Digital Capitalism (2022), Digital Humanism (2022), and Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (2020).